"You have to be able to judge a cow thru the mud...." David E. McPhearson

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

A Pallet Island Bar

I had grown tired of walking around the dining room table in my kitchen. I was looking at my den and thinking.....if I moved this there, and that there, and got rid of the sofa table and love seat, the dining table could be moved into the den. We have a huge entertainment center and I didn't want to move it, without being sure. I measured everything and cut out paper diagrams of the furniture to scale, so I could check to make sure. It did and I am happy with the new look!

With the table gone out of the kitchen, the kitchen looked huge. I wanted an island bar. I have two really nice bar stools that never get used. I priced built island bars, I looked at furniture pieces that could be converted, I searched Pinterest, I thought about making my own out of stock cabinets.......Then, like a lot of projects happen....I was out in the garage and I see this window that I had purchased, but done nothing with. I had pallets and some scrap lumber. I had time!

Measure, Measure....was the window long enough to use as a top to the bar, was the pallets tall enough for the bar stools? OH my gosh....Yes! Lucky me!

First, I worked on the window. I knew this would be the biggest decision making problem. I wanted to use the Gallery Glass paint on it. I had to come up with a design. It took me a couple of days to resolve....

A cross with a star and horse shoe. Since, my window had two panels, I did them in reverse. Then, to put the bar together...Hubby helped me on this project! He doesn't usually, I don't know how I got lucky! I didn't take any before paint pictures. What is wrong with me? I found a chalk paint recipe using Plaster paris and mixed up some red and some turquoise. I painted the red first and then topped with the turquoise. Last step was to wipe it down with a walnut color stain.

I had ran down to the dollar store for something and saw this cute baskets. Perfect for holding dish towels and freeing up a drawer. I only have 3....One had silver ware, one cooking tools (packed) and one for dish towels. I got to rearrange some things...Excited about the small stuff!

The bar stools are getting used now!

The window had a grove on each end of course for sliding up and down. I used some old cowboy rope to fill the grove. Last step will be to mount the horse shoe for a towel holder.

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Blogging is New to me! I like to stay busy and thought this would be a
great way to share all the things I get into. We live in TN, but plan
to retire in AR. We bought a house there, in the Fall of 2011, so a lot
of the pictures that you will see, will be from those projects and of
things we have done here.